Zeppelin Museum

You have now arrived at the Zeppelin Museum and I’m sure you counted how many manhole covers there were along Karlstraße? The answer is…ten!

Here in the Zeppelin Museum you can see the world’s biggest collection on the history of airship travel, and in the experimental room you can even try out lots of things to do with aerodynamics. Did you know, for example, that a Zeppelin is filled with gas? It helps it fly in the sky like a gas balloon. It was obviously not as easy as that, but you can experiment and see for yourself. You can also go into a partly rebuilt airship, the famous Hindenburg, and feel like one of the passengers 80 years ago, who flew around the whole world in the Hindenburg. You heard that right, you can actually go into the airship. In the Zeppelin Museum you will also learn more about the technology and the size of the famous Hindenburg. Another great room is the “chamber of wonders”! Here you can see how excited people were by the airship. I am especially proud of the very first airship and Zeppelin I made in 1900. In the museum you can see a model of it and a picture of the first journey.

There are still so many other exciting things for you to see. Have you ever heard of a motorised gondola? They needed to use a Zeppelin to move forwards. In the museum you can see a real, old motorised gondola.

But that’s still not all! Right at the top of the museum is a huge art collection that you can go and be amazed by. Here there are always new, exciting pictures and other artworks to see. Some of them are really old. They were painted by artists in the Middle Ages.

So you see, there are so many great things to discover in the Zeppelin Museum. If you go on a special children’s tour, there are fun puzzles to solve and pretty pictures you can take with you as a gift. There’s even a great little suitcase you can take around with you to put everything in. Have fun!